Their leader was 29-year-old Robert Noyce, a physicist with a brilliant mind and the affability of a born salesman who would co-invent the microchip — an essential component of nearly all modern ...

A multimillion-dollar gift from a Grinnell College alum and technology pioneer will help the private university transform its ...

Among other things, a $10 million gift from a tech icon alumni will allow an Iowa school to establish an endowed computer ...

Bob Noyce's nickname was the "Mayor of Silicon Valley." He was one of the very first scientists to work in the area -- long before the stretch of California had earned the Silicon name -- and he ...